Units - math word problems

  1. Company account
    work_7 The company had an account of EUR 10,000. On Monday it withdraw 3,000 euros and Tuesday 6,000 euros. How much did the euro remain in the account?
  2. Hypotenuse
    RightTriangleMidpoint_1 Calculate the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle if the length of one leg is 4 cm and its content area is 16 square centimeters.
  3. Rectangle diagonals
    rectangle_diagonals_1 It is given rectangle with area 24 cm2 a circumference 20 cm. The length of one side is 2 cm larger than length of second side. Calculate the length of the diagonal. Length and width are yet expressed in natural numbers.
  4. Christmas trees
    vianocny_stromcek Salesman sold Christmas trees: spruce for € 22, pine for € 25 and fir for € 33. At the morning he had the same number of spruce, fir and pine. At the evening he had all the trees entirely sold for € 3,600. How many trees that day salesman sold?
  5. Glass aquarium
    akvarium_8 How many m2 of glass are needed to produce aquarium with bottom dimensions of 70 cm x 40 cm and 50 cm high?
  6. Bag
    taska Nelly found interesting point. An empty bag weighs 4 kg less than full. And empty bag is 5 times easier than full. How many kg weigh things in this bag?
  7. Diagonals
    koso_uhlopricky Given a rhombus ABCD with a diagonalsl length of 8 cm and 12 cm. Calculate the side length and content of the rhombus.
  8. Apples
    jablka_4 Apples I picked 600 kg this year. Autumn's apples was 4 times more than the summer. How many kg's I picked the summer and how much winter apples?
  9. Argicultural field
    field_3 Field has a rectangular shape with a width 180 m and circumference 940 m. How many hectares acreage has field?
  10. Paper box
    box Hard rectangular paper has dimensions of 60 cm and 28 cm. The corners are cut off equal squares and the residue was bent to form an open box. How long must be side of the squares to be the largest volume of the box?
  11. Fertilizer
    luka_1 Meadow with an area of 1,500 square meters was fertilized with 12 kg of urea. Urea contains 45% nitrogen. How much nitrogen accounted per 1 m2?
  12. Sale
    usd A camera has a listed price of $751.98 before tax. If the sales tax rate is 9.25%, find the total cost of the camera with sales tax included.
  13. Raw meat
    vahy_2 In the school cafeteria for one lunch, they prepare 490 servings of 50 g of boiled meat. Meat loses 30% of its weight by cooking. How many kilograms of raw meat must the school canteen prepare for this lunch to cook?
  14. Chocolate roll
    chocholate_3 The cube of 5 cm chocolate roll weighs 30 g. How many calories will contain the same chocolate roller of a prism shape with a length of 0.5 m whose cross section is an isosceles trapezoid with bases 25 and 13 cm and legs 10 cm. You know that 100 g of this
  15. Granddad
    konva_3 Grandfather have three barrels each with a capacity 2HL in the garden. How many times he can fill 10L can if two barrels are full and the third is filled with water to the half? How long it lasts water when irrigate the garden 125 liters a day?
  16. Baskets of apples
    jablka_3 Grandfather gathered apples into baskets. He filled one large and three small baskets. Small baskets are identical and each can hold 3 kg of apples less than in a large basket. In small baskets together 3 kg of apples over a large basket. How many kilogra
  17. Candy - MO
    cukriky_4 Gretel deploys to the vertex of a regular octagon different numbers from one to eight candy. Peter can then choose which three piles of candy give Gretel others retain. The only requirement is that the three piles lie at the vertices of an isosceles trian
  18. Potatoes
    zemiaky_3 Daniela and Michael would jointly dug potatoes for 7.5 hours. But if Daniela was working alone she would take 2.5 hours more as if he were working with Michael. Determine how much for the work done by Michael himself and how much Daniela herself.
  19. The swing
    houpacka To swing the two girls. Aneta weight 45 kg and Simon 35 kg weight. How far should sit Simon from the middle of swing so it is balanced, if we know that Aneta is sitting at distance 1,5m? How far are girls sitting apart?
  20. Octahedron - sum
    8sten On each wall of a regular octahedron is written one of the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8, wherein on different sides are different numbers. For each wall John make the sum of the numbers written of three adjacent walls. Thus got eight sums, which also

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